Resources…to jump-start or feed your thinking
1 TRAVEL: A Personal Sort of Time Travel: Ancestry Tourism
2 PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES & ACTIVITIES: The Pioneer Plaque
3 CHANGE TOLERANCE: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher 544 BC - 483 BC
4 RELATIONSHIPS: Damn it Spock!
5 TIME ORIENTATION: Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman, consists of 30 chapters, each exploring one of Einstein's dreams about time. Each dream involves a conception of time.
6 COMMUNICATION STYLE: Active Listening Masterclass
7 GENDER: Happiness & Gender? 03/19 article by Rob Pianka
8 INTERPERSONAL ROLES (FAMILY AND BEYOND): How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?
9 WORK-LIFE MOTIVATION: Really? Ask yourself, how often is this a choice?
10 EGALITARIAN / HIERARCHICAL (POWER & AUTHORITY): Japaneseness: A Guide to Values and Virtues, by Yoji Yamakuse
11 INDIVIDUALISM V (INSTITUTIONAL) COLLECTIVISM: “Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.” - Blaise Pascal
12 ETHNIC NARRATIVE (NON-NATIONAL ROOTS…OF FAMILY): Where do we come from? An extraordinary map/video showing “Everyone Who Has Emigrated to the United States Since 1820”
13 LANGUAGE: The best online language tutors: Preply.com
14 RACE The Power of Illusion, Interview With Richard Lewontin, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most eminent authorities on human diversity.
15 CULTURE (FOOD, MUSIC, ART, ETC.): Entertainment, Refinement, Culture, Elegance, Fun, Arts, Gourmet, Music, etc.
16 SOCIAL CLASS: Meritocracy, a BBC Podcast. It’s not what you think, but it’s a great point to start thinking about inequality.
17 IN/OUT GROUP: Esperanto Explained [i]
18 SYMBOLS/HEROES/RITUALS: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior, by Desmond Morris (1978)
19 VOCATION/EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: 150+ Hobby Ideas Broken Down by Interest and Personality (How to choose one...)
20 OPENNESS (PERSONAL > GLOBAL / +DISGUST) Dehumanization
21 1st INJUSTICE PERCEIVED Wake up!
22 DEFINING EXPERIENCES, PROACTIVE: First impressions: a virtual experience of the first year of life. [ii]
23 NARRATIVES (TRADITIONS TO ISSUES) “Know thyself”
24 LOYALTY (NON-NATIONAL): Can you be a Dual Citizen and a Patriot...?
25 NATIONAL (ALLEGIANCE, SUBORDINATING TO NARRATIVE): Can YOU pass the U.S. citizenship test? Take this quiz
26 RELIGION (& NON-DEIST BELIEFS OF SAME SCOPE): “It’s G-d’s garden. Who are we to complain about the other kinds of flowers?” - Rob Pianka
27 PRINCIPLES (FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS) An example: Mahatma Gandhi, 11 vows
28 MORALITY/ETHICS (GOOD/BAD > RIGHT/WRONG): “First, do no harm” is commonly thought to be the first line of the Hippocratic Oath. It is not found in the original oath.
29 INTELLIGIBILITY: How Important Is Global Mindset® to Your Success? (Quiz)
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[i] The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man [1962] / We Were Soldiers (4/9) Movie CLIP - Moving Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death (2002) / Wikipedia: Xenophobia / Lord of the Flies / You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
[ii] Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam / Formative Experience Quotes / Life Experience Quotes / Science says people decide these 11 things within seconds of meeting you. / Bob Marley, Redemption Song, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”